Famous Quotes

"Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven."

Georg C. Lichtenberg on Courage

More quotes about Courage

• "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

  Steve Jobs on Courage

• "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Courage

• "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

  Nelson Mandela on Courage

• "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

  Winston Churchill on Courage

• "There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

  Ronald Reagan on Courage

More quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

• "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

• "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

• "We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing."

• "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

• "Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."